praeceptum

From praecipio.

praeceptum n (genitive praeceptī); second declension

1. teaching, lesson
2. precept
3. order, command

   405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Exodus.20.6:

   et faciens misericordiam in millia his qui diligunt me, et custodiunt praecepta mea.

   and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Second declension.

• French: précepte
• Italian: precetto
• Spanish: precepto
• Portuguese: preceito

• praeceptum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• praeceptum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praeceptum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• praeceptum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give advice, directions, about a matter: praecepta dare, tradere de aliqua re
    
  • to be well acquainted with the views of philosophers: praecepta philosophorum (penitus) percepta habere
    
  • to teach logic: disserendi praecepta tradere
    
  • theoretical, speculative philosophy: philosophia, quae in rerum contemplatione versatur, or quae artis praeceptis continetur
    
  • to systematise: ad rationem, ad artem et praecepta revocare aliquid (De Or. 1. 41)
    
  • to treat with scientific exactness; to classify: ad rationis praecepta accommodare aliquid
    
  • the rules of art; aesthetics: artis praecepta, or also simply ars
    
  • to teach rhetoric: dicendi praecepta tradere
    
  • the rules of speech, grammar: praecepta grammaticorum
    
  • moral precepts: praecepta de moribus or de virtute
    
  • to give moral advice, rules of conduct: morum praecepta tradere alicui